Friday, October 29, 2010

Of course you do! Before we tell you how to win, here's a bit about the event itself. We Stamp For Lara is an online stamping event, and it's in support of raising funds for Madonna Dunn's daughter, Lara May, who needs some essential equipment to make her life a little bit easier. You can read more about Lara here.

Check out the details below...

To join in and buy your entry to this fabulous event, go to Madonna Dunn's blog or Alisa Tilsner's blog. Invitations to the Online Community will be sent out closer to the 1st November.

Now, about this FREE PASS (by the way, if you've already purchased a pass and you win this, you'll be refunded)...

All we're asking you to do is to help us spread the word about We Stamp For Lara by posting the information above on your blog and/or facebook, then link back here using Mr Linky. Easy! Don't stress if you don't have a blog, we'd still love you to enter, we just hope you'll spread the word in whatever way you can. To copy the information, just right click on the picture above and save it to your computer, then post!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

We have a great challenge for you this week - fairly generic - but we hope that you take it on board, take a deep breath and make something completely different to the norm. Think outside the gift box, if you will! We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Thankyou all so much for supporting Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month with your gorgeous challenge entries! Find out more at beyondblue.org.au. We've really enjoyed using our challenges to highlight some fantastic causes this month. If you know of a cause that you think we could support by helping to raise awareness, send us an email at just-add-ink@hotmail.com and we'll see what we can do!

There were so many stunning entries this week! We know all the recipients of those RAKs will be thrilled! Here are our Top Picks...

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Thankyou so much to everyone who has participated in our Just Add Blue challenge for Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month. There's a wealth of information at beyondblue.org.au, it really is a wonderful resource.

On to our beautiful entries so far...

If you haven't already entered, the cut-off time is Wednesday October 20th midnight EST and you can submit your entries HERE.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Last week we highlighted Pink Ribbon Day coming up on the 25th October. This entire month is also important for another reason - Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month.

Over a million people in Australia live with depression. Over two million have an anxiety disorder. With the right treatment, most people recover.

It's easy to help raise awareness. Sometimes the simplest acts have the greatest impact - just talking openly about anxiety and depression helps reduce the stigma.

beyondblue Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month provides an opportunity for workplaces, community groups and individuals to take part in activities to raise awareness of anxiety and depression, and help reduce the associated stigma.

Everyone loves to know that they've been thought of, so we thought we'd have an additional part to this week's challenge, too. It's completely optional, and we're not expecting you to tell us all about it in your entry post (but you can if you want!).

A Random Act of Kindness (RAK) is when you do something nice for someone for no particular reason, so it's not for their birthday, or Christmas etc. So our add-on challenge to you is to send/give the card you create for Just Add Blue to someone you care about...

Just... Because!

It doesn't have to be someone who's suffering depression, or someone who's struggling. It could be someone who makes you laugh, or someone you've been out of touch with for a while. Maybe it's someone who'd just like your card! Whoever! The idea is to make your card, and then send it!